System of electrical distribution and conversion



(No Model.)

T. H. HIGKS. SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION AND CONVERSION.

N0. 402,671. Patented May 7, 1889.

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THOMAS H. HICKS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE HICKS INDUC-TION-LIGHT AND MOTOR COMPANY, OF MICHIGAN.

SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION AND CONVERSION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,671, dated May 7,1889. Application filed July 5, 1888 Serial No. 279,129. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071 0721 it may concern: the working circuit, the amount passing55 Be it known that I, THOMAS H. HICKS, a through the latter beingproportioned to the citizen of Great Britain, residing at Detroit,resistance in said circuit. At the same time,

in the county of Wayne and State of Michithe coils or section of coilsof each circuit began, have invented certain new and useful ing in thesame magnetic field with each other,

Improvements in Induction-Coils, of which a corresponding inducedcurrent will be 60 the following is a specification, reference bethrowninto the working-circuit when the ing had therein to the accompanyingdrawmain current is off, and the induced current ings. will also passthrough the working-circuit.

IO This invention relates to new and useful Each wave or impulse ofcurrent passing improvements in systems of electrical disthrough theseveral branch circuits from the 65 tribution and conversion, wherebypulsating dynamo-machine excites magnetism in the or intermittentcurrents of electricity of high core A of the induction-coil l3, and thelines tension are converted into low-tension curof force in spreadingthrough the magnetic rents, suitable for electric light or electricfield thus created out the coil-conductor surmotors; and the inventionconsists in the perounding the core, thus creating an electro- 7oculiararrangement of an inductorium, and its motive force which willsend an induced curcombination with a main and translating cirrentthrough any path or circuit that maybe cuit, all as more fullyhereinafter described, closed to it at that moment. \Vhen the and shownin the accompanying drawings, in brushes change commutator-segments,there which will be a rupture of the path through the dy- 75 Figure l isa vertical central longitudinal name, and the induced wave in coil B,due to section of the inductorium. Figs. 2, 3, l, and the break ofcurrent, must discharge through 5 are diagram cross-sections thereof,with the the circuit containing the translating devices.

translating devices differently disposed in It will thus be evidentthatin the case of a dieach figure, as specifically referred to hereinrect current the induction-coilrenders the cur- So after. rent smootherby bridging over the intervals A is an iron core of any ordinaryconstrucdue to the insulations between the commutation. torsegments. Inthe several figures of the 0 Bisacoilformed ot' asingle-wire conductor,drawings more or less of the induction-coil wound back and forth uponthe core to form is thrown into the circuit containing the trans- 85 aseries of superimposed helices, as in the lating devices. Thedynamo-current at all usual manner of forming such coils. times has onebranch which passes through C is an electric 'eneratorof pulsating or inthe entire coil. The electromagnet B thus termittent currents. forms areaction-coil, which, during the in.-

D D is the main-line circuit leading from termissions oi" currentbetweenthe successive 90 the generator to the coil, and including eitherpulsations, supplies the translating devices. the whole coil, as shownin Figs. 1, 2, a, 5, and W'hat I claim as my invention is 6, or only aportion of its helices, shown in In a system of electrical distributionand 40 Fig. 3. conversion, the combination of a source of E aretranslating devices placed in multiple high-tension intermittentelectrical impulses 9 5 are, with a portion or portions of the helicesof one direction, a main circuit connected of the coil in one or moreworking-circuits, F, thereto, a derived local circuit containing whichmay be variously arranged, as shown translating devices, and areaction-coil havin the ditferent figures, in which Figs. 1, 2, ing allor a portion of its helices in the main and show a working-circuitincluding an circuit and a portion in the local circuit, both 100 innersection of the coil, while Figs. 5 and (3 portions being in the samemagnetic field. show a working-circuit including an outer In testimonywhereoflaffix mysignature, in portion of the coil, while Fig. i showsthree presence of two witnesses, this 7th day of June,

working circuits including successive sec- 1888.

tions of the coil. THOS. H. HICKS.

In practice it will be seen that the current Witnesses:

from the generator has two ways to pass-one JOHN SCHUMAN,

through the main line and the other through I. M. HULBERT.

